Fest circuit jewels lined up for San Seb

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MADRID -- Those who missed out on Pascal Ferran's "Lady Chatterley" at Berlin, Anton Corbijn's "Control" at Cannes or Etger Keret and Shira Geffen's Camera d'Or-winning "Jellyfish" will have another chance to see them at the 55th San Sebastian International Film Festival, organizers said Thursday.

The films will join five others from previous festivals in the Zabaltegi-Pearls section. Zabaltegi-Pearls will compete for the TCM Audience Award, which carries a €70,000 ($94,930) for the importer of the winning film. A second prize of €35,000 will go to the European film obtaining the most votes from the audience at the end of each screening.

Zabaltegi-Pearls also will offer special screenings of Carlos Saura's music-based "Fados," screening in Toronto; a restored version of Richard Lester's Beatles movie "Help"; and "Lou Reed's Berlin," Schnabel's tribute to Lou Reed's 2005 live performance of his mythical album.

Zabaltegi-Pearls is one of the most popular sections at the San Sebastian festival, which runs Sept. 20-29 in Spain's northern Basque region.